Isotope-Specific Fission Rates for 15 Plutonium Diversion Scenarios in a PWR

15 plutonium diversion scenarios for a mixed-oxide loaded pressure water reactor, with diverted fuel amounts ranging from 655.19 kg to 2.17 kg of fissile plutonium. Dean Price from the University of Michigan created this dataset using industry-standard simulation tools CASMO-4 and SIMULATE-3. The isotope-specific fission rates are provided over three reactor cycles with realistic fuel loading and shuffling patterns.

Use Cases

• Modeling reactor neutrino sources based on isotope-specific fission rates mentioned in the description
• Simulating safeguards detection for plutonium diversion scenarios spanning a wide range of diverted fuel masses
• Analyzing fission rate evolution over three reactor cycles with realistic fuel management patterns

Strengths

• 15 distinct plutonium diversion scenarios provide a range of conditions for analysis
• Data covers three full reactor cycles with realistic fuel loading and shuffling patterns
• Generated using industry-standard simulation tools CASMO-4 and SIMULATE-3

Limitations

• Dataset is not intended to be used without a publication which is currently under development
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

University of Michigan

Collection Method

Simulated using CASMO-4 and SIMULATE-3 tools